Welcome!

Our goal is to make available to genealogists, useful, readable, high quality maps. Here you will find both archival maps and newly made maps based on scholarly research. This project and all of its strictly volunteer staff are dedicated to free, online access for the general public.

Welcome to our website!

The United States Digital Map Library is a USGenWeb Archives project, developed in April of 1999 under the coordination of Fred Smoot. The current Coordinator is Adrian Williams. Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or comments.

The VolunteersThis project and its all-volunteer staff are dedicated to free, online access for the general public. We rely on contributions and volunteers. If you would like to be a part of our team, please see our State Map Coodinator Page. If you would like to contribute a map, see Submissions.

Our Collection

US MapsThis section includes maps of national interest. Maps that show our westward expansion, our land survey systems, and more will be included here.

State and County MapsRepresenting the bulk of our collection, the State and County section includes maps from all 50 US states and oftentimes maps of individual counties in a state.

Indian Land CessionsThis collection provides maps of the land cessions made by American Indian Nations during the interval between the formal establishment of the United States and 1894.

Don't Forget!

US Gen Web ProjectBe sure to visit our parent organization!

USGenWeb ArchivesThis project operates under the auspices of the US GenWeb Archives Project.

CopyrightsYou have permission to use any pre-1923 map graphic. Works that carry a visible copyright of others may not be used outside the USGenWeb Archives, United States Digital Map Library, or the USGenWeb Project without the express permission of those copyright holders.

Size of ImagesOur map graphics may require long download times because the file sizes are quite large. Although they are normally around 500k, they can run as high as 1.5 megs

The site

About

The United States Digital Map Library is a free, volunteer-based project whose intent is to make public digitized copies of all historical maps.

Submissions

We are always looking for more maps! If you have access to maps that we don't yet have a copy of on the site, please consider submitting them to the site. Be sure to visit the submissions page for more information on what we can and cannot take as well as submission procedures.

Volunteers

The project is in serious need of volunteers who are willing to take coordinate the map content for a state (or several states!). It doesn't take a lot of time and your efforts are so valuable to the preservation and publication of historical maps.